From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10707171008u66031dc1g883b4eadfb0a10b4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:08:26 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] the perpetual disk partition problem In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10707170929r2b780418o8b2018077ae28206@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 957c08c4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/17/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > why can't you just put the (known) offsets in your plan9.ini like i am doing > for aoe? it's distasteful, but it does get the job done. > Until the offsets change. This is intended to be used by people other than me. > if you don't like that you could put fdisk and prep in your kernel > image, write a new boot method, localpart, that partitions before > it calls local. you could import the code for this from 9load. That's what I did several years ago for the xen 2.0 port but there was an objection to it that I never understood. I'll go with that. ron